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– 𝑨 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒂, 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒏, 𝟏𝟖𝟔𝟕. 💐🤍

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~ 🤍 Royal Parallels 🤍 ~

Queen Alexandra giving her daughter Louise Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, and her granddaughter Lady Alexandra Duff 🤍✨🥹

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Four generations: Queen Louise of Denmark (born Princess of Hesse-Kassel) with her eldest daughter Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (consort of King Edward VII, at the time of taking the picture she was the Princess of Wales) and Alexandra’s eldest daughter Princess Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife. Queen Louise is holding Princess Louise’s eldest daughter Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, 1893.

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More from 1911 -

1911 Euphimia Nosova by Konstantin Somov (State Tretyakov Gallery - Moskva, Russia). From Wikimedia 2075X3293. This is the epitome of Edwardian dress.

Queen Alexandra's daughters

Left 1911 Duchess of Fife, Princesses Alexandra and Maude. From the lost gallery's photostream on flickr 5384X3684 @800 4.1Mj.

Right 1911 HH Princess Maud and HRH Princess Royal Louise. From eBay reduced contrast and removed mono-color tint 957X1522.

1911 Evening dress of Queen Alexandra (Fashion Museum - Bath, Somerset, UK). From tumblr.com/fashionsfromthepast 1280X1812.

1911 Geneviève Vix, a singer by Jean Coraboeuf (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes - Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France). From history-of-fashion.tumblr.com/image/177126241755 643X975.

1911 Hélène d'Orléans, duchesse d'Aosta by ?. From tumblr.com/blog/view/jeannepompadour/683841884513288192; fixed a few spots w Pshop 1450X2000.

1911 Frau Luther by Lovis Corinth (Landesmuseum Hannover - Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany). From cutlermiles.com/portrait-of-frau-luther-lovis-corinth/ 966X1280.

1911 Lady in Lavender by Lawton S. Parker (private collection). From the discontinued Athenaeum Web site 716X955.

Left Maria Josefa of Austria with Karl. Posted to Foro Dinastias by Katyusha on 25 May 2010 614X800

Right ca. 1911 (based on age of child) Grand Duchess-Mother Anastasia Mikhailovna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with her grandson Friedrich. From eBay; removed mono-color tint 891X1433.

1911 Dolors Vidal by Ramon Casas (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain). From artsandculture.google.com; fixed obvious flaws w Pashop 1332X2652 @144 4.9Mp.

1911 (1 August issue) Le Theatre Mlle Lantelme. From verbinina.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/le-theatre-303/le-theatre-303-1-aout-1911-vkl/; fixed spots w Pshop 1182X1616

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Royal Tiara Challenge 2024: Favourite tiara no longer in a royal family

Queen Victoria’s Emerald Tiara

Stunning! Absolutely stunning! It is such a shame that this tiara is no longer within the British Royal Family, instead it is owned by the Duke of Fife who, luckily for every tiara lover, has lent it to Kensington Palace to be put on display. The tiara was inherited by his great-aunt, Princess Alexandra of Connaught, Duchess of Fife, from her great-aunt, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who had been given the tiara by her mother, Queen Victoria, in 1893. I nearly went to go and see this last year when I was down in London but decided against it and went to the (free) V&A museum instead to see the other tiara designed by Prince Albert on display, the Sapphire Coronet. The tiara was last worn by the Duchess of Fife in 1960 for the State Opening of Parliament.

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“I think Louise, Princess Royal, later Duchess of Fife was the most beautiful daughter of Edward and Alexandra. It's quite unfair that none of their daughters were considered particularly beautiful back in their day - in my mind Louise was stunning, on par with other royal beauties like Princess Elisabeth of Hesse.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife out fishing

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1904: A royal family gathering at Mar Lodge in Scotland Back row, from left, Queen Alexandra, Louise, Duchess of Fife, Duke of Fife, The Hon. Charlotte Knollys, Cunningham Graham, King Haakon Children in the middle row, from left, Prince Olaf, Lady Alexandra Duff, Lady Maud Duff Front row, from left, Edward VIII, Princess Mary, and Princess Victoria, holding Prince Albert's hand. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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~ ROYALS AND THEIR SIGNATURES ~

Part 1/3

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Queen Alexandra(Alexandra of Denmark)

Princess Beatrice of Battenberg

Princess Victoria of Wales

Queen Victoria

King Edward VII

Louise, Princess Royal & Duchess of Fife

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna(Alix of Hesse)

Tsar Nicholas II

Queen Maud of Norway(Maud of Wales)

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STUNNING picture of Louise Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (née Princess of Denmark), 1880s - 1890s🤍

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The eligible princesses of the 1920s

It was the headline in The New York Times that caught my attention. "Princess Spinsters Worry Sovereigns: Royal Daughters, coming of age all at once, exceed princely suitors in Europe...."European royalty is facing a crisis in family life which is giving no end of worry to the households of various sovereigns.  The trouble is due to too many princesses coming of age simultaneously without enough royal princes to go around." As we approach the 21st century, we may scoff at such headlines.  But in the 1920s, marriage was largely the only option for royal princesses.  The one exception was Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands  Prince Heinrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin). Juliana was an eligible princess who was also the heir to her country's throne.

The dispatch acknowledged that there was a "growing popularity of marriages between royalty and the nobility." In 1923, Princess Jolanda of Italy married Italian count Giorgio Calvi di Bergolo, a member of the Italian aristocracy.

 Virginia Pope, writing in 1929 in The New York Times, noted: "Husband hunting is no easy task for royal princesses nowadays. There are far fewer prospective crowned heads to choose from, and the uncertain future of thrones has caused princesses to look outside the charmed circle of royalty for their mates."

In other words, there were not enough princes to go around. The Great War was responsible not only for the deaths of millions of young men but was also the catalyst that brought down three of the most powerful thrones in Europe: Russia, Germany, and Austria.

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Emperor Karl I of Austria spent their final years in exile.

 The Bolsheviks murdered the Russian Emperor and his family. Had they survived, the four daughters of Nicholas II,Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, would certainly have topped most lists as the most eligible young royal women.

despite his hemophilia, Alexis' position as heir to the Russian imperial throne, would have meant a brilliant dynastic marriage.

The surviving Romanovs, as well as the Archduchesses of Austria and the princesses and duchesses of the former German ruling families, were no longer considered on the A-List for marital consideration. The Greek princesses largely lost their allure when King George II was deposed in 1924.Seven years later, the former highly touted Infantas Beatriz and Maria Cristina of Spain experienced the same situation when their father, King Alfonso XIII, went into exile when Spain was declared a republic.As the New York Times article pointed out, marriages with the nobility were popular. In Britain, such marriages were becoming the norm as the first three royal weddings since the end of World War I was with members of the British aristocracy. On July 17, 1917, the day when the British Royal Family renounced their German titles and adopted Windsor as the name of the House, King George V wrote in his diary: "I've also informed the [Privy] Council that May and I decided some time ago that our children would be allowed to marry into British families. It was quite a historic occasion."

(It should be noted that before the accession of George I, it was not uncommon for a member of the English or Scottish royal families to marry into the noble families. Queen Victoria encouraged such marriages, as well. Her daughter, Louise, was married to the Duke of Argyll, and her granddaughter, Princess Louise of Wales, was the wife of the Duke of Fife).In February 1919, George V's cousin, Princess Patricia of Connaught married the Hon. Alexander Ramsay of Mar, the younger son of Earl of Dalhousie. The Princess, who preferred painting and country life to royal panoply, renounced her royal title, and following her marriage, she was known as The Lady Patricia Ramsay. It was also unlikely that George V's only daughter, Princess Mary, would marry a foreign prince, although some assumed she might marry her first cousin, Crown Prince Olav of Norway. In 1922, Mary married Viscount Lascelles, heir to Harewood earldom. Her parents supported the marriage, and her countrymen were delighted that the princess would remain in Britain. Crown Prince Olav aside, the majority of her suitors were British aristocrats, including Lord Lascelles, the Earl of Dalkeith, and Viscount Althorp, whose fathers were the Duke of Buccleuch and Earl Spencer, respectively. A generation earlier, however, Mary probably would have wed a German prince. But in 1922, it was untenable that a British princess would consider marriage with a German prince. The Great War was still fresh in Britain's memory.

One of Princess Mary's adult bridesmaids was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Lady Elizabeth had been briefly courted by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, but she accepted the proposal from Mary's second brother, Prince Albert "Bertie," the Duke of York. They were married at Westminster Abbey in April 1923. "Duke of York Weds Simple Scots Maid; Throngs Hail Them," headlined The New York Times.

The princesses who emerged as the marital front runners in the 1920s included Jolanda, Mafalda, and Giovanna of Italy, the elder daughters of King Vittorio Emanuele III and his Montenegrin wife, Elena

Princess Ingrid of Sweden, only daughter of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden

and her cousins, Martha and Astrid, the younger daughters of Prince Carl and Princess Ingeborg

Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands

Princess Marie-José of Belgium

Infanta Beatriz of Spain

Princesses Elisabeth of romania

Princesses maria of romania

Princesses Ileana of romania

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The. 10th of August was 135 years since the birth of HRH Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (10 August 1888 – 21 January 1940)

He was the fifth and youngest son and youngest child of King George I of Greece, belonging to a dynasty which mounted and lost the throne of Greece several times during his lifetime. Much of his life was spent living abroad.

Christopher was born at Pavlovsk, Imperial Russia, son of King George I of Greece and Queen Olga, a Russian grand duchess by birth.He was the youngest of their eight children, being twenty years younger than their oldest child, Constantine. He was called "Christo" in the family. His older brothers were future King Constantine I, George, Nicholas and Andrew.

Christopher, like his siblings, was a polyglot, speaking Greek, English, Danish, Russian, French, and Italian. The siblings spoke Greek to one another, and used English with their parents. The parents, however, spoke German to each other.

The Greek royal family maintained close relations with the Danish royal family, to which they also officially belonged. The Hellenic royal line was a cadet branch of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg dynasty which had mounted the throne of Greece in 1863.

When Christopher came of age he joined the Hellenic Navy, although apparently he would rather have studied the piano. While a young man, he was apparently offered no fewer than three different thrones - those of Portugal,Lithuania, and Albania - but he declined them all, as he did not wish the stress of royal duties.

He was briefly engaged to Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife in about 1910 (Alexandra's mother, Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, was a daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, herself an older sister of George I of Greece, Christopher's father so she was his First Cousin ). The engagement was terminated when disapproving parents learned of the liaison.

On 1 January 1920, Christopher married a very wealthy American widow, Nonnie May "Nancy" Stewart Worthington Leeds, at Vevey, Switzerland.His bride, a once-divorced and once-widowed commoner at least a decade older than the prince, was nonetheless recognised as Christopher's dynastic wife by his family (at the time of the engagement and wedding, the Greek royal family lived frugally in exile, and as Christopher was last in the dynasty's order of succession, any children he fathered would not impact the succession rights of other Greek dynasts). Her fortune, estimated in the tens of millions of dollars, was inherited from her second husband, a tin millionaire,and substantially eased the Greek royal family's exile during the 1920s. The wedding followed a six-year engagement while the royal court-in-exile negotiated the terms and arrangements of the marriage.

Shortly after their marriage, Princess Anastasia developed cancer, and died in London on 29 August 1923, leaving no children from this marriage. Prince Christopher did, however, have a stepson, William Bateman Leeds Jr (1902–1971), who had, in 1921, married Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia.She was Christopher's niece through his elder sister, Marie of Greece, Grand Duchess George of Russia.

Prince Christopher later remarried; his second wife was Princess Françoise of Orléans (25 December 1902 – 25 February 1953).

Françoise was a daughter of Jean d'Orléans, Duc de Guise, Orléanist pretender to the throne of France, by his wife/first cousin, Isabelle d'Orléans.Isabelle was, in turn, a daughter of Philippe, Comte de Paris by his wife and first cousin, Infanta Isabel de Orléans y Borbon.

The couple were married in 1929 in Palermo, Italy; the civil ceremony was on 10 February, and the religious one on 11 February.They were childless for a decade, then one child was born to Françoise: Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark was born in Rome in 1939, shortly before Prince Christopher's death.

Prince Christopher recorded his thoughts on monarchy and those aspiring to it: "Nothing under the sun would induce me to accept a Kingdom. A crown is too heavy a thing to be put on lightly. It has to be worn by those born to that destiny, but that any man should willingly take on the responsibility, not being constrained by duty to do so, passes my comprehension.”

Prince Christopher of Greece died in Athens on 21 January 1940, aged 51 and he is buried in the Tatoi Royal cemetery next to his second wife Princess Françoise.His first wife Princess Anastasia is buried according her will in United States with her parents in the family mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City.

Την 10η Αυγούστου συμπληρώθηκαν 135 χρόνια από τη γέννηση Της ΑΒΥ Πρίγκιπα Χριστόφορου της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας (10 Αυγούστου 1888 – 21 Ιανουαρίου 1940)

Ήταν ο πέμπτος και νεότερος γιος και το μικρότερο παιδί του βασιλιά Γεωργίου Α' της Ελλάδας, ανήκε σε μια δυναστεία που ανέβηκε και έχασε τον θρόνο της Ελλάδας πολλές φορές κατά τη διάρκεια της ζωής του. Μεγάλο μέρος της ζωής του πέρασε στο εξωτερικό.

Ο Χριστόφορος γεννήθηκε στο Παβλόφσκ της Αυτοκρατορικής Ρωσίας, γιος του Βασιλιά Γεωργίου Α' της Ελλάδας και της Βασίλισσας Όλγας, Ρωσίδας μεγάλης δούκισσας εκ γενετής. Ήταν το νεότερο από τα οκτώ παιδιά τους, είκοσι χρόνια νεότερος από το μεγαλύτερο παιδί τους, Κωνσταντίνο. Στην οικογένεια τον έλεγαν «Χρήστο». Τα μεγαλύτερα αδέρφια του ήταν ο μελλοντικός βασιλιάς Κωνσταντίνος Α', ο Γεώργιος, ο Νικόλαος και ο Ανδρέας.

Ο Χριστόφορος όπως και τα αδέρφια του, ήταν πολύγλωσσος και μιλούσε ελληνικά, αγγλικά, δανικά, ρωσικά, γαλλικά και ιταλικά. Τα αδέρφια μιλούσαν ελληνικά μεταξύ τους και χρησιμοποιούσαν αγγλικά με τους γονείς τους. Οι γονείς, ωστόσο, μιλούσαν γερμανικά μεταξύ τους.

Η ελληνική βασιλική οικογένεια διατηρούσε στενές σχέσεις με τη βασιλική οικογένεια της Δανίας, στην οποία ανήκαν και επίσημα. Η Ελληνική βασιλική γραμμή ήταν ένας κλάδος της δυναστείας Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg που είχε ανέβει στον θρόνο της Ελλάδας το 1863.

Όταν ο Χριστόφορος ενηλικιώθηκε, εντάχθηκε στο Ελληνικό Ναυτικό, αν και προφανώς θα προτιμούσε να είχε σπουδάσει πιάνο. Ενώ ήταν νέος, προφανώς του προσφέρθηκαν όχι λιγότεροι από τρεις διαφορετικούς θρόνους - της Πορτογαλίας, της Λιθουανίας και της Αλβανίας - αλλά τους αρνήθηκε όλους, καθώς δεν επιθυμούσε το άγχος των βασιλικών καθηκόντων.

Αρραβωνιάστηκε για λίγο την πριγκίπισσα Αλεξάνδρα, 2η Δούκισσα του Φάιφ το 1910 περίπου (η μητέρα της Αλεξάνδρας, πριγκίπισσα Λουίζ, Δούκισσα του Φάιφ, ήταν κόρη του Βασιλιά Εδουάρδου Ζ' και της Βασίλισσας Αλεξάνδρας του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου, η ίδια μεγαλύτερη αδελφή του Γεωργίου Α' της Ελλάδας , άρα ήταν η πρώτη του ξαδέρφη). Ο αρραβώνας τερματίστηκε όταν οι γονείς που αποδοκίμαζαν έμαθαν για τον σύνδεσμο.

Την 1η Ιανουαρίου 1920, ο Χριστόφορος παντρεύτηκε μια πολύ πλούσια Αμερικανίδα χήρα, τη Nonnie May "Nancy" Stewart Worthington Leeds, στο Vevey της Ελβετίας. Η νύφη του, μια κάποτε διαζευγμένη και χήρα, τουλάχιστον μια δεκαετία μεγαλύτερη από τον πρίγκιπα, ήταν παρ' όλα αυτά. αναγνωρίστηκε ως η νόμιμη σύζυγος του Χριστόφορου από την οικογένειά του (την εποχή του αρραβώνα και του γάμου, η ελληνική βασιλική οικογένεια ζούσε λιτά στην εξορία, και καθώς ο Χριστόφορος ήταν τελευταίος στη σειρά διαδοχής της δυναστείας, τα παιδιά που απέκτησε δεν θα επηρέαζαν τα δικαιώματα διαδοχής των άλλων πριγκίπων της δυναστείας ). Η περιουσία της, που υπολογίζεται σε δεκάδες εκατομμύρια δολάρια, κληρονομήθηκε από τον δεύτερο σύζυγό της, έναν εκατομμυριούχο, και μείωσε ουσιαστικά την εξορία της ελληνικής βασιλικής οικογένειας κατά τη δεκαετία του 1920. Ο γάμος ακολούθησε αρραβώνα έξι ετών, ενώ η εξόριστη βασιλική αυλή διαπραγματεύτηκε τους όρους και τις ρυθμίσεις του γάμου.

Λίγο μετά τον γάμο τους, η πριγκίπισσα Αναστασία εμφάνισε καρκίνο και πέθανε στο Λονδίνο στις 29 Αυγούστου 1923, χωρίς να αφήσει παιδιά από αυτόν τον γάμο. Ωστόσο, ο πρίγκιπας Χριστόφορος είχε έναν θετό γιο, τον William Bateman Leeds Jr (1902–1971), ο οποίος είχε παντρευτεί το 1921 την πριγκίπισσα Xenia Georgievna της Ρωσίας. Ήταν ανιψιά του Χριστόφορου μέσω της μεγαλύτερης αδερφής του,Μαρίας Μεγαλης Δούκισσας της Ρωσίας.

Ο πρίγκιπας Χριστόφορος αργότερα ξαναπαντρεύτηκε. η δεύτερη σύζυγός του ήταν η πριγκίπισσα Φρανσουάζ της Ορλεάνης (25 Δεκεμβρίου 1902 – 25 Φεβρουαρίου 1953).

Η Φρανσουάζ ήταν κόρη του Jean d'Orléans, Duc de Guise, Ορλεανιστή υποψηφίου του θρόνου της Γαλλίας, από τη σύζυγο/πρώτη ξαδέρφη του, Isabelle d'Orléans.Η Isabelle ήταν, με τη σειρά της, κόρη του Philippe, Comte de Paris από τη σύζυγό του και πρώτη ξαδέρφη του, Infanta Isabel de Orléans y Borbon.

Το ζευγάρι παντρεύτηκε το 1929 στο Παλέρμο της Ιταλίας. η πολιτική τελετή έγινε στις 10 Φεβρουαρίου και η θρησκευτική στις 11 Φεβρουαρίου.Έμειναν άτεκνοι για μια δεκαετία, στη συνέχεια γεννήθηκε ένα παιδί ο Πρίγκιπας Μιχαήλ της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας γεννήθηκε στη Ρώμη το 1939, λίγο πριν από το θάνατο του πρίγκιπα Χριστόφορου.

Ο πρίγκιπας Χριστόφορος κατέγραψε τις σκέψεις του για τη μοναρχία και αυτούς που τη φιλοδοξούν: "Τίποτα κάτω από τον ήλιο δεν θα με παρακινούσε να δεχτώ ένα Βασίλειο. Ένα στέμμα είναι πολύ βαρύ πράγμα για να το φορέσουν ελαφρά. Πρέπει να το φορέσουν όσοι έχουν γεννηθεί σε αυτό το πεπρωμένο , αλλά ότι οποιοσδήποτε άνδρας πρέπει να αναλάβει πρόθυμα την ευθύνη, χωρίς να τον περιορίζει το καθήκον να το πράξει, δεν το καταλαβαίνω».

Ο Πρίγκιπας Χριστόφορος της Ελλάδας πέθανε στην Αθήνα στις 21 Ιανουαρίου 1940, σε ηλικία 51 ετών και θάφτηκε στο Βασιλικό νεκροταφείο Τατοΐου δίπλα στη δεύτερη σύζυγό του, πριγκίπισσα Φρανσουάζ.

Η πρώτη του σύζυγος, πριγκίπισσα Αναστασία, θάφτηκε σύμφωνα με τη θέλησή στη διαθήκη της στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες διπλα στους γονείς της στο οικογενειακό τους μαυσωλείο στο νεκροταφείο Woodlawn στο Μπρονξ της Νέας Υόρκης.

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Royal Tiara Challenge 2024: Favourite Non-Royal tiara

The Fife tiara

As this tiara was owned by a Princess, this is probably cheating, however, as the tiara was never part of the mainline of a Royal Family, I’m going to count it as a non-Royal tiara just so I can include it! This tiara is beautiful, sparkly and regal, everything you want in a tiara. If I owned this tiara, I don’t think I’d ever take this off. Given to Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife by her husband as a wedding present, this tiara passed from Duke of Fife to Duke of Fife until 2017 when it was given to the government in lieu of inheritance tax and is now on display in Kensington Palace. It was last worn in 2001 by Lady Alexandra Etherington, the daughter of the 3rd Duke, for her wedding.

If this tiara is not acceptable as a non-Royal tiara, then my next pick is the Duchess of Otrante’s Amethyst Tiara, which I don’t know much about, but is very pretty!

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     ~ “A sublime tiara belonging to British Royal Princess and Duchess of Fife Louise, Queen Victoria’s granddaughter. The tiara was a wedding gift to the Princess/Duchess from her husband in 1889. It is constructed of silver and gold with approximately 200 carats of diamonds, ranging in weight from one to ten carats each.” ~

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Daughters of Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife: Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk, and  Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (Princess Arthur of Connaught), ca. 1911.